On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:18 AM, inshu chauhan <insidesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > for this code m getting this error : > > CODE : > def ComputeClasses(data): > if data[cy,cx] != (0.0,0.0,0.0): > centre = data[cy, cx] > ... > dist = distance(centre, point) > > ERROR : > UnboundLocalError: local variable 'centre' referenced before assignment > > And i am unable to understand .. WHY ?
In brief, here's what causes that error: 1) Somewhere in the function, you assign to that name, which implicitly sets it to be a local variable. That happens there where you go "centre = data[cy, cx]". 2) Somewhere else in the function, you reference that name. That happens where you try to calculate the distance from your previously-defined centre to the current point. 3) At run-time, you haven't executed #1, but you do execute #2. Your problem here I can't diagnose, but it looks like your first point is (0.0,0.0,0.0), so centre never gets set. There are a couple of possible fixes for this, and you'll need to figure out what to do based on knowing your own code. Possibly you just need to initialize centre above the loop, so that it always has a valid value; or possibly the code below needs to not execute if the current centre hasn't been set. Go through your function's logic by hand and figure out what happens when, and whether that's what it ought to do. Then decide what should happen when a data value is (0.0,0.0,0.0) - currently it's retaining the value of centre from the previous iteration of the loop, which smells wrong to me. Beyond that, I don't think I can really help, it's up to you. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
